''Eucalyptus victoriana'' is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is
endemic to the
Grampians in Victoria, Australia. It has rough, stringy bark on part of the trunk, egg-shaped to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven to eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus victoriana'' is a tree that grows to a height of , sometimes much less, and forms a
lignotuber. It has rough, stringy bark on part of the trunk, smooth pale grey and creamy white above. Adult leaves are egg-shaped to elliptical or lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a
petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf
axil
A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, st ...
s in groups of seven to eleven on a thick, unbranched
peduncle Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
up to long, the individual buds
sessile. Mature buds are warty, oval, about long and wide with a conical to rounded
operculum. The flowers are white and the fruit is a woody cup-shaped to hemispherical
capsule long and wide with the valves at rim level or prominently protruding.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus victoriana'' was first formally described in 1993 by
Pauline Y. Ladiges
Pauline Yvonne Ladiges (born 1948) is a Botany, botanist whose contributions have been significant both in building the field of Biological classification, taxonomy, Plant ecology, ecology and Phylogeography, historical biogeography of Australi ...
and
Trevor Paul Whiffin in ''
Australian Systematic Botany'' from specimens collected on Mount Thackeray in the
Grampians National Park in 1987.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''victoriana'') is a reference to the state of Victoria.
Distribution
This eucalypt has a restricted in the Grampians area.
See also
*
List of Eucalyptus species
The following is an alphabetical list of ''Eucalyptus'' species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at February 2019. Several species only occurring outside Australia, including '' E. orophila'', '' E. urophylla'' and '' E. wetarensis'' are ...
References
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Flora of Victoria (state)
Trees of Australia
Eucalyptus, victoriana
Myrtales of Australia
Grampians (national park)
Plants described in 1993